PUBLISHED IN NIGERIAN TRIBUNE UNIZIK’s novel stride to Golgotha • Written by Onyiorah Paschal • Thursday, 08 August 2013 00:00 • font size • Print • Email Rate this item • • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 (0 votes) раскрутка сайтов “The ASUU perennial strike actions, and others, are therefore a ball game where only the players unwittingly enjoy it while others sit and watch to the detriment of the society and the economy” – Maduabuchi Dukor. The above metaphorical remark by Professor Maduabuchi Dukor of Philosophy Department in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State – inan article entitle: ASUU strike, crisis of underdevelopment - vividly underscores the ASUU’s seemingly morbid fascination with strike actions as well as the Federal Government apparent inclination to tango along with the latter to the detriment of ordinary Nigerians and students in particular, who form part of the spectators in Dukor’s ball game analogy. Unequivocally, one cannot but concur with Professor Dukor on his apt description of ASUU-FG ball game disposition towards the lingering industrial action. But critically weighed from all its facets, this analogy can hardly be divorced from pointing at the futility and/or the pernicious frequency of strike actions by the ASUU and their attendant abysmal effects on the society. Viewed from this prism therefore, it will suffice to show with pinpoint accuracy the extent to which restraint or abstinence from incessant strike actions by the ASUU is in fact part of the solution to the crisis of underdevelopment raised by Dukor. To this end, it serves to showcase Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra state, as a model in this regard. Until recently, before 2012 to be precise, when it reportedly got its baptism of fire from the parent body of the ASUU and thus became inaugurated with an inherent mandate to live and sustain as an off-shoot of the latter, Nnamdi Azikiwe University had pursued a policy equivalent to the then American policy of isolationism vis-à-vis ASUU perennial strike actions and so was impervious to contamination with this underdevelopment hallmark that has been the bane of university education in Nigeria. In the circumstance, Nnamdi Azikiwe University had for decades enjoyed uninterrupted flow of normal university academic calendar with its attendant benefits. Arguably, therefore, it is hard nowadays to mention the first 11 Federal Government-owned universities that have relatively excelled in this 21st century Nigeria in terms of academic performance, timely graduation of students, production of result-oriented graduates, infrastructural development and sundry other attainments, without of course enthusing about the increasing success stories of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra. Though a relatively young citadel of learning, UNIZIK, as it is fondly called, has pleasantly carried itself so well that it has today attained a status that is at best analogous to that of a proverbial child who having washed his hands clean now savors the rare privilege of eating from the same plate with the elders. Little wonder that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had recently recognized UNIZIK as the second most preferred University in Nigeria, an objective ranking arising from the records of 2011/2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Indeed, it need not be belaboured that only what is good or effectively and efficiently managed can be preferred against other existing options. Thus, this great achievement of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, as the second most preferred University in the country speaks volumes about the kind of amazing record any young University in Nigeria can break if well guarded against incessant strike actions. For the records, however, it is worthy to note that Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, was at infancy denied access to her mother’s breast milk for the seemingly stupid reason that another baby University and its contemporary was deemed at the time to be in greater need of the same breast milk. It should not therefore surprise or sound strange to those who do not know to hear that UNIZIK was not only rendered a motherless child at infancy, but also breast-fed with palm wine. Nevertheless, that the University of Abuja which is alleged to have forcibly enjoyed UNIZIK’s Mother’s breast milk is today purported to be a spoilt child that can hardly eat without being spoon-fed is one issue that is beyond subjective reasoning. In effect, this whole analogy accounts for the unpleasant story of the N5 million take-off grant originally earmarked for the development of Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, at inception, but was allegedly re-directed to University of Abuja under the guise that the latter was in greater need of the same money as the then new University in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Though as disturbing as this alleged denial of UNIZIK its take-off grant is, it tells more than a little about the institution’s tortuous journey to the present reality. But be that as it may, the big question now is: will Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and its development strides still remain on course in the face of its newly found love with involvement in the strike activities of the ASUU? •Paschal, a journalist, writes from Abuja. модули joomla 2.5 Read 100 times Published in Opinion More in this category: « Osun: Urban renewal going awry How To Last Longer In Bed And End Premature Ejaculation Permanently! Make N250,000 Every Month from the Internet. No Experience Necessary. Click Here! Learn How To Start Buying Goods From China With A Little Capital As Low As N10,000 Only. Click Here To Learn All About This Business!
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